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Three years ago the “Nuclear Renaissance” was getting underway.
The price of yellowcake uranium was on the rise, our resource maven Matt Insley reminds us, and uranium miners were seeing their best run-up since 2007.

TOKYO: Most Japanese firms think a Donald Trump presidency would harm the Japan-US security alliance and make the United States a less attractive place to invest, a Reuters poll showed, in a further sign of international angst about his candidacy. The Republican frontrunner, known for his unpredictable style and fiery rhetoric, would also cause bilateral trade to shrink if he became president, a majority of respondents said.

Paris (AFP) - France faces a unique challenge as it moves to save nuclear reactor manufacturer Areva and salvage one of its world-class industries and jobs, while at same time reducing its own reliance on atomic power.

Japan has extracted natural “ice gas” from methane hydrates beneath the sea off its coasts in a technological coup, opening up a super-resource that could meet the country’s gas needs for the next century and radically change the world’s energy outlook.
The state-owned oil and gas company JOGMEC said an exploration ship had successfully drilled 1,000ft below the seabed into deposits of methane hydrate, an ice-like solid that stores gas molecules but requires great skill to extract safely.